Johnny Hughes
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorJohnny Hughes is a Principal Software Engineer with over 14 years of experience building, packaging, and deploying enterprise Linux at global scale, and more than a decade leading development for the CentOS Project. He has been a core CentOS developer and release manager across CentOS-4 through CentOS-7, maintaining i386 and x86_64 branches and leading the i686 alternative-architecture SIG. Johnny combines deep systems expertise—Oracle DBA, Unix/Linux and Windows administration, and network engineering—with hands-on release engineering, having personally installed hundreds of CentOS and RHEL servers worldwide. At Red Hat he continues to drive open source infrastructure work, including Xen Dom0 kernel creation and security maintenance for virtualization stacks. His background supporting US Navy maintenance and ERP systems gives him rare experience translating strict operational requirements into reliable, auditable production software. Based in Corpus Christi, TX, he blends low-level systems craftsmanship with a long track record of shipping reproducible, security-conscious Linux distributions.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (31)
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xen7
powershell7
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rpm-spec6
bash6
zsh5
rust5
mod-manager5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
scality/centos-kernel
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:11 commits in 6 months
hughesjr/xen
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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